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JOSEPH H. GREENLEAF, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO' JOHN M. MARLIN AND GEO. H. SNOW, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN DARNlNvG-SPOOLS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOSEPH H. GREENLEAF, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Darning- Spools; and I do hereby Adeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which willenable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specilication, in which- Figure l is an elevation of a spool made according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan.

The object of this invention is to produce an article which will serve to hold, as on a spool, several varieties of darning-yarn, and whose ends shall serve to distend the parts of a stocking to be mended or darned. i

The labor of mending or daruing stockings is much facilitated by distending the broken parts over a convex surface, and for this purpose it has been quite common to use a ball of yarn, and also a small gourd.

My invention is meant to supplyin one implement or article both a device for distending the stocking and a device for receiving the yarn to be used in the work.

In the example here shown of myinvention, the letters a b c 1 e designate separate places for receiving yarn of different colors and sizes,

so that one can have them all at hand on the same article. These places are divided from each other by ridges, which may be of any suitable height, according to the quantityof yarn to be wound, and the divisions may be more or less numerous according to the number of kinds of yarn to be gathered on the spool. The anges F G at the ends of the spool are rounded, so as to form surfaces of the proper convexitv to distend the part-s of the stocking to be mended. These iianges are of different sizes, so as to he used for large l JOSEPH H. GREENLEAF.

Witnesses:

IsAAc N. DANN, J oNA'rHAN DANN. 

